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WebQuest Training

Workshop 3

Adapting and using WebQuests

2 hours 15 min

In this workshop you will learn how to critically analyse WebQuests with a view to adapting and improving them for your own use.

WebQuests that you find may be good, but they are never quite good enough until they meet all your requirements. The constant cross-pollination of ideas between one teacher and the next means that we are constantly enhancing the resources which support our learners.

 

Workshop question:

Can I constantly improve the learning experience of my learners?


 
Step-by-step guidelines
Resources
1

Orientation (10 min)

  • Meet as class.
  • Pool your current knowledge about WebQuests
    • what are the most important elements of learning in a WebQuest?

 

 
2

Finding a WebQuest (25 min)

  • Work on your own.
  • Find a WebQuest that you would be interested in adapting for use in your class.

 

 Click here to find WebQuests.
3

Task (25 min)

  • Meet in pairs.
  • Read the "taskonomy" and view the online examples.
  • Discuss how you could use this knowledge to adapt the WebQuest that you would like to use.

 

 Click here to view a taxonomy of tasks - a "taskonomy".
4

Process (15 min)

  • Meet in new pairs.
  • Read the process checklist and view the online examples.
  • Discuss how you could use this knowledge to adapt the WebQuest that you would like to use.

 

Click here to view the process checklist.
5

Adapting WebQuests (60 min)

  • Work on your own but in close support of colleagues. If you have a colleague working on the same WebQuest you could work in pairs.
  • Using the notes that you made in the previous activities, adapt the WebQuest to suit your purposes.
  • Finally assess your final product.

 

Click here to:
6

Community of WebQuest practitioners

  • Join the community of WebQuest practitioners online and participate in the email discussion list.

 

Thutong:

http://www.thutong.org.za (online)

 

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Workshop 4: Handbook for managing WebQuests
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